Haiti protesters burn plane belonging to US missionary group
Port-au-Prince, HaitiReuters Haitian demonstrators protesting against crime in the city of Les Cayes on Tuesday burned a plane belonging to US missionary group Agape Flights, according to local media reports and an Agape spokeswoman. The protesters entered the local airport in Les Cayes even though police fired tear gas at the group, according to a […]
Wow!: For 25 cents a day, poor Nigerians get a shot at science education
ABRAHAM ACHIRGA, of Reuters, reports on how the Knosk Secondary School in Abuja is looking to change lives…
Queen Elizabeth II and royals pay tribute to her late husband
London, UKReuters Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II made her first public appearance in five months on Tuesday when she joined the royal family and other dignitaries at a memorial service to her “remarkable” husband Prince Philip, who died last year. Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, who was by his wife’s side for more than seven decades, […]
Orthodox patriarch denounces “atrocious invasion” of Ukraine
Warsaw, Poland AP The spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians on Tuesday denounced Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as an “atrocious” act that is causing enormous suffering. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I didn’t mention Russia by name in comments made during a visit to Warsaw after meeting with Ukrainian refugees. Poland has accepted the largest number […]
Arab gunman kills at least five in Tel Aviv suburb, latest in series of attacks
Bnei Brak, Israel Reuters An Arab gunman killed at least five people in a Tel Aviv suburb on Tuesday before he was fatally shot, the national ambulance service said, in the third deadly attack in Israel in a week. “Israel is facing a wave of murderous Arab terror,” Prime Minister Naftali Bennett tweeted after the […]
Russia pledges to reduce attack on Kyiv but US warns threat not over
Istabul, Turkey/Kyiv outskirts and Mariupol, UkraineReuters Russia promised on Tuesday to scale down military operations around Kyiv and another city but the United States warned the threat was not over as Ukraine proposed adopting a neutral status in a sign of progress at face-to-face negotiations. Talks took place in an Istanbul palace more than a […]
UN envoy: Sudan could face economic and security collapse
United NationsAP The UN envoy for Sudan warned Monday the east African nation is heading for “an economic and security collapse” unless it addresses the political paralysis following October’s military coup and moves toward resuming a civilian-led transition. Volker Perthes told the UN Security Council that the military’s “violent repression” of protests against the coup […]
UN investigates reports of migrant mass graves in Libya
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters UN investigators are seeking to verify reports of mass graves thought to contain the corpses of migrants at a trafficking hub in Libya, they said in a report on Monday that also documented incidents of rape, murder and torture. Libya is a major transit point for Africans seeking to make the perilous journey […]
Books: New Lenten cookbook gives Catholics tasty choices for ‘meatless Fridays’
CLEMENTE LISI, a writer for Religion Unplugged, samples a new cookbook made specifically to liven up Lenten fare…
EU countries look to share effort of hosting Ukrainian refugees
Brussels, BelgiumReuters Germany called on Monday for a more even distribution of Ukrainian refugees in the European Union, after some 3.8 million people fled Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war on their country and crossed into the 27-nation bloc. Since Russia invaded its neighbour on 24th February the fighting has displaced more than 10 million people […]